Assetto Corsa V1.9 Sound Preview Video

[Paul Jeffrey]

Kunos Simulazioni's Sound Designer and Official Technical Support officer Luca Sodano has shared a pretty epic new video, showcasing the work in progress sound update to Assetto Corsa, due to form part of the next major patch for the title.

Coming in at just over five minutes in length, Sodano shows off the impressive improvements made with the Fmod tool across a number of cars. The video (seen below) takes in a on-board and replay cam footage of the Lamborghini Huracan GT3 around the legendary Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit.

Assetto Corsa (beta) - Fmod 1.08.12 internal testing (WIP) - AI cars Video

The video, shot as an audio level peak test during internal testing for the new build, features 23 AI cars and achieves a 15 % Fmod usage average percentage, peaking at a maximum of 24%.

Audio in Assetto Corsa has come in for criticism from some corners of the community, with some players even going so far as to create their own Fmod sound packs to download. One such pack, made by well know community member Fonsecker, covers no less than 35 cars across three releases, creating a must have package for many Assetto Corsa players (download here). However the team over at Kunos have been working hard to address some of the know weaker areas of the audio experience in recent builds, and the new preview once again shows some impressive progress. Still not quite on the level of acknowledged industry leaders RaceRoom Racing Experience, the new preview does offer up a considerable improvement over the current offerings from the studio.

Release date for the latest build of Assetto Corsa has not yet been confirmed by the studio, however stay tuned to RaceDepartment for all the news as it happens...

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Looking forward to the sound update? How do you think AC compares to its rivals in the sound department? Let us know in the comments section below!

 

[Caton XII]

OK, I was in a false feeling and you can accept all my apologies !

 

[Carlos Polito Filho]

The only difference I saw was the loss of several sounds of mods that are no longer played

 

[tlsmikey]

Is it me or did all the cars get a slight boost in sound quality. I swear the LaFerrari sounds a million times better.

 

[JayJayRaceinho]

Is it me or did all the cars get a slight boost in sound quality. I swear the LaFerrari sounds a million times better.

you mean, instead of 22khz/96kbit it raised to 22khz/192kbit ?! probably

tried the LaFerrari, it still lacks volume with some deep bass in all areas .... engine, gearchange, revlimiter, all sounds like a mic from a laptop was taken to record those sounds and magix music maker was taken to edit the samples

 

[thepharcyde]

A cayman s blasts past me daily and can categorically say the the cayman in Ac does not sound like that on upshifts.

 

[snezana]

It was not worth breaking all the mod car sounds.Some of my favorites are mod cars.Reduces the value of the game for me.I realize this is just my opinion.Some of the mod car authors are not around anymore so many will not get updated.Give us an editor for bank files then and we can fix this ourselves if Kunos wants to keep doing this.

 

[Epistolarius]

if Kunos wants to keep doing this.

I certainly hope they do. The volume balancing and certain sounds changed improved even the older cars where no engine samples changed. The whole experience is much more pleasant now, so it was entirely worth it in my mind. But while they're on a good path there's still much to improve, so as long as they update and improve this sim they can force modders to update their work every patch for all I care. Yes it's obviously work for modders which don't get any profit out of this work and it makes little sense to do that every other week (it's work for Kunos just the same) but if people want to see improvements they'll have to deal with it. Backwards-compatibility is not always feasible, that's just the hard truth. If people don't want that I recommend playing another sim, particularly one that doesn't receive updates anymore.

 

[Hygge]

They added a new dimension with those extra sounds that come through more clearly now.
On the negative side - the 488 GT3 engine now sounds awful. One of my favourite cars but now the immersion is more or less gone. Hope they change it more to how it was before.

 

[RC45]

It was not worth breaking all the mod car sounds.Some of my favorites are mod cars.Reduces the value of the game for me.I realize this is just my opinion.Some of the mod car authors are not around anymore so many will not get updated.Give us an editor for bank files then and we can fix this ourselves if Kunos wants to keep doing this.

Easy fix - I don't want to cross post the same data and risk getting banned for violating some obscure forum rule - see the post I made in the 1.9 thread.

Assetto Corsa V1.9 & Porsche Vol.1 DLC Deployed

 

[Stereo]

Backwards-compatibility is not always feasible, that's just the hard truth.

Yeah, really it's a problem to take up with the people who develop FMOD, they're the ones who specced out a format that can't be edited or updated without working from the original project files. Kunos just uses the library (and it's kinda a mixed bag but changing away from it would obviously have even higher odds of breaking every mod at this point)